City Eyes Improving Retirement Benefits
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The Board of Supervisors has agreed to present voters with a charter amendment that would provide prosecutors,...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from Los Angeles County
By Angela Gottula
BEVERLY HILLS - The Bank of America Building at 9440 Santa Monica Blvd. in the Golden Triangle has sold for $21.9 million to I...
Ad Flap Shines Spotlight on Deputy DA
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - To some, Deputy District Attorney Steven Ipsen is a bold crusader for the rights of Los Angeles County prosecuto...
Applying Law on Agency Due Process Is Difficult for Courts
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Two recent Court of Appeal decisions address some of the complicated pr...
Panel Revives Reality TV Lawsuit
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court Tuesday reversed a jury verdict clearing a reality TV show of intentionally recording parents...
Reporter's Notebook: Book Bares Regulatory Revamp
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - California officials, worried that the Bush administration is too cozy with polluters, have gone to court to t...
State Prisons Director Called to Explain
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - State prisons director Edward Alameida faces mounting criticism in the state Senate and a federal court over a...
Judge Scolds Santa Clara Prosecutor For Searches
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge sanctioned a prosecutor in a harshly worded order Tuesday for executing improper searche...
Heir Withdraws Lawsuit to Block L.A. Exhibit of Looted Paintings
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - The partial heir to a renowned Russian art patron who sued to halt the exhibition of Bolshevik-looted paintings ...
DAs Worry as Car Tax Funding Vanishes in Stroke of Pen
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to slash the Vehicle License Fee, with no assurance he can replace the bill...
FBI Can Bug Cars Via Navigation System
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The emergency roadside assistance features in some luxury cars can also be used as roving bugs by the FBI to l...
Aesthetic Value
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - Toward the end of a recent continuing education program in the Peter L. Spinetta Family Law Center in Martinez, fam...
Double Standard
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - In a survey by the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board released in October, 12 per...
Panel Pursues Lawyers' Help With New Rule
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Monday sought guidance from lawyers in crafting new law on whether legal arguments in c...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from Northern California
By Angela Gottula
ANTIOCH - Keegin & Coppin Co . broker Ronald Stauber closed the $1.3 million sale of 21,000 square feet of industrial spa...
Kuhl's Critic Distorted Jurist's Words
By Jennifer Orff
On Nov. 12, professor Catherine Fisk argued that the Senate should not confirm the president's nomination of Los Angeles Supe...
Scalia Accuses Court of Creating Rights
By Katrina Dewey
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a strong rebuke to his own court Saturday, saying its creation of rights ...
Courts and Code Are Aiming to Treat Wills and Trusts Alike
By Columnist
Focus Column Probate Law By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley In In the Matter of the Erma Mary Olivera Trust , 2003 DJDA...
Pillsbury Winthrop Chair Wins Third Term
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Mary Cranston will serve another term as chairwoman of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop after her partners vo...
Court Upholds Preference Hiring
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Declining to jump back into the affirmative action debate after its major ruling last term, the Supreme Court on...
Hollywood Wiretap Anxiety: Sometimes, It's Not Just in Your Head
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams Sometimes, paranoia is not a fantasy. Sometimes, your phone really is tapped. Sometimes, the strange n...
A Mentor and an Innovator
By Xenia Kobylarz
AUBURN - Virtually everyone who has come into contact with Placer County Superior Court Judge Richard Couzens has a good word...
Jurist Indefatigably Promotes Juvenile Courts
By Sarah Garveyn
VENTURA - Ventura Superior Court Judge John E. Dobroth spent Halloween day shuttling between two courts. In the morning and af...
Facing the
By Columnist
Forum Column By Jay Handlin In deciding the appeal in Newton v. Diamond , the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had a chance ...
Scalia Accuses Court of Creating Rights
By Katrina Dewey
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a strong rebuke to his own court Saturday, saying its creati...
Reporter's Notebook: 'Mr. Green Is Not Going to Be Appearing'
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara defense attorney Dennis Alan Lempert has won a battle against what he considers an attempt by a judge ...
Attorney Hand-Carries Letters of Credit
By Toni Vranjes
The budget woes that have given the Golden State the lowest credit rating in the nation complicated a recent $3 billion financ...
Wal-Mart Changes Supermarket Rules
By Staff Writer
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the poster child for Risk champions of the Parker B...
Ramping Up
By Karen Coleman
Five hundred civil rights boosters from the Bay Area and beyond clambered up the ramp of San Francisco's Palace Hotel on Oct. ...
Player's Punch Prompts Suit By Teammate
By Stefanie Knapp
Football players often land themselves a spot on the clip reel for their hard hits on the field, but they're supposed to be sl...